The apparent speed with which Zan can make such a mess is not in any way inspired by my kids. At least, that’s the official line. Now pardon me while I go tidy up my house.
If you missed it from last week, there’s a blog post up from the New York Comic Con.
I knew it!! Zan can’t be left alone for a minute!
Either that or he *should* be left alone for a minute. Everyone always interrupts him halfway through!
Look at the poor guy… he’s like a vagrant technician, setting up in little clear spots of the floor. What that boy needs is a bench and someplace to call “the workshop.”
Yup, that looks like epic level kludging alright.
And if he’s allowed to finish, it might actually work better than the gadgets he took the parts from.
Why is she upset? She tells him there’s a communications problem, then tells him what objects she has on her that have pieces designed for communication. He then asks for those objects and she gives them to him. It seems pretty obvious to me what he was going to do with them.
True, he probably needs to work on his own communication skills, as the understanding that he was going to take the objects apart might have been implicit in the question, she probably doesn’t know him well enough to know better.
I think Aria would agree with you that it was indeed obvious… in hindsight.
Waitaminnit- ( ! ) he’s just making it better.
Oooh…speaking of that variant on “Z” that his name’s been spoken with?
Ƶ!
I… never knew any of that. I mean, beyond the idea that some cultures habitually use the crossed-Z in handwriting. I’ve certainly appreciated it when writing postal codes and other things with numerals and letters mixed together– it makes things absolutely clear that this-is-a-”Z”-not-a-”2″!
Except that in the UK and Europe a “7″ is sometimes written with a horizontal line through the middle. My postcode has a “Z” in it and I once wrote that with a line through it to distinguish it from a “2″, only to have it interpreted as a “7″! I’ve given up trying to be clever and just write a large, angular “Z”. PS. this is my first comment, but I’ve been reading for about a year (took me months to catchup on the story). I love the comic.
I also write my “7″s with a line through it (picked up the habit at the same time I picked up the one for the “z”), but I never imagined it could be mistaken for a “Z”! Oh well.
Thanks for the kind words, and welcome to the comments section!
*looks on happily at the Zan cheering section*
Wait, she WASN’T expecting that to happen? XD
I’m loving Aria’s facial expressions. Especially that last one…
I’m 50% Zan… I’ve got the ‘taking it apart’ bit down perfect… but I always seem
to end up with 3 or 4 screws left over on the ‘putting it back together’ bit…
And maybe a coil or two. Oh… and sometimes a chip…
Eli.
On the other hand, it’s worth noting that his backpack is scrupulously neat…
Zan reminds me of my stepson who won the engineering competition at the Air Force Academy in his senior year.
That’s very cool!
Happy Halloween everyone. Oh, and Tara, first friday of the month this week?
Hmm. Seems like he’s using the radio unit from the wrist alarm (being an alarm it’s probably stronger, perhaps strong enough to reach through right where they are), and spare parts from the unit he found on <a href="http://galaxioncomics.com/1-comic/book-3/chapter-8/229b/"page 229. Plus some tools and spare cable and so on. Neat!
Did I mention lately that I really like Zan?
While as the detatched reader I know that Zan probably knows ehat he’s doing, I sympathise very much with Aria here. Damn disconcerting to have someone doing that with your stuff!